{"id":1763,"date":"2009-05-24T06:13:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T14:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2009-05-24T06:13:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T14:13:47","slug":"jews-on-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=1763","title":{"rendered":"Jews on Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an idea for an organization to get visible, create a fun image and raise some money.\u00a0 I had the idea while thinking about how to help my local Jewish Federation.\u00a0 What they should do is sponsor a Drag Racing event on a Thursday night at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toyotaspeedwayatirwindale.com\/dragstrip\/site\/clubs.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Irwindale Speedway<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The 1\/8 mile drag strip at the speedway has street legal racing for all licensed drivers on Thursdays.\u00a0 They already have a club program and you can drive your own cars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"drad2\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/3559728364\/drad2.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3299\/3559728364_36ba48a9e4_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"drad2\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We could have sections for Lawyers, Doctors and Businessmen.\u00a0 Maybe clergy, women and professionals.<\/p>\n<p>The idea would be to get the Federation some publicity in a non traditional way that would be fun and attract people who usually don&#8217;t go to Federation events.<\/p>\n<p>The first year it could be small with a very limited goal.\u00a0 There is an In-n-Out on the premises so the food would be easy.\u00a0 The trick would be to get two groups to &#8220;challenge&#8221; each other to create the excitement that would get people to attend.\u00a0 Maybe PJTC against Pomona or Doctors against Bankers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d drive my Smart Car and win the weight adjusted speed category which I invented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an idea for an organization to get visible, create a fun image and raise some money.\u00a0 I had the idea while thinking about how to help my local Jewish Federation.\u00a0 What they should do is sponsor a Drag Racing event on a Thursday night at the Irwindale Speedway.\u00a0 The 1\/8 mile drag strip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-success"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-sr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}